Lupus could be responsible for Michael Jackson’s death
Was the King of pop really felled by prescription drug abuse ? The people who speculated on this theory for his demise could be completely wrong! Instead, Michael Jackson could very well be the victim of the lupus he suffered from as a child.
Did you know that Jackson, was the victim of a rare auto-immune disease called lupus? Yes, according to his Wikipedia autobiography and as it turns out that sufferers from lupus frequently die in their 40s and 50’s from sudden heart attacks, caused by atherosclerosis.
Lupus is the cause of inflammation in many of the body’s organs including the arteries of the heart. These inflamed arteries then cause cholesterol to deposit on their arterial walls.The deposits of cholesterol can cause scarring, and the whole process primes the lupus victims for massive heart attacks, which are often asymptomatic beforehand.
Those with mild lupus, like Michael Jackson, are actually much more at risk for having a fatal heart attack, according to Dr Michael Lockshin, who is a rheumatologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. The reason for this is because people who have a mild lupus are less likely to take any of the medications which would prevent inflammation of the organs and hence the catastrophic heart condition.
Auto-immune disease
Now if you don’t believe that Jackson had lupus consider this: Vitiligo, which Jackson also suffered from, resulting in the famous pigment loss in his skin, is also an auto-immune disease. Coincidentally, vitiligo and lupus are often diagnosed in the same person, explains Dr. Lockshin. In other words, it would not have been unusual for Michael Jackson to have suffered from both of these ailments. African-Americans are four times more like to be lupus victims than white Caucasians. However, lupus is far more common in women than men, but men do get it.
So would any abuse of prescription drugs have exacerbated the lupus? Only if demerol was injected intravenously into the system, would it also have damaged Jackson’s heart, according to Lockshin. Demerol injected into his muscles would not have played a deadly role and neither would drugs like Xanax and Zoloft.
Lupus also frequently causes some inflammation and pain in the joints, which could explain why Jackson was sometimes seen using a wheel chair. This might also explain why Jackson had not performed for some 12 years. Maybe it wasn’t just the stress of the molestation charges and court cases that forced him to put his performance career on hold. Maybe, he was simply unwilling to share his medical problems with the public.
Until a possible lupus-induced heart attack felled him, the King of Pop may have preferred to preserve the illusion that he was still, at least in some ways, invincible!
